Wes is a recognized expert in a wide range of telecommunications
technology, systems, and equipment. As Chief Technology Officer of Qwest
government services division, he is responsible for technology and product
leadership, proposal development, sales engineering, and technical strategic
direction. He is the primary interface to the other product development and
planning organizations within Qwest. His accomplishments include leading the successful
development of proposals for GSA Networx, NIH COOP Program, DoE DISCOM,
NASAnet, DoE UltraScience Net, TSA Network, DoE BAYMAN, TeraGrid, I-WIRE, the
Energy Sciences Network, Treasury Communications System Network, and many
others. Wes also has responsibility for continued product development for these
and other programs.
Prior to joining Qwest as one of the founders of Government
Services Division in January 1998, Wes was a Distinguished Member of the
Technical Staff for Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies.
He is the author of numerous reports and presentations to the
government covering a broad spectrum of issues related to the impact of
technology on government operations. This includes technology roadmaps, the
impact of and use of MPLS for enterprise networks, impact of IPv6, and the
evolution of the public telecommunications infrastructure and how it can be
used to solve government Information Technology needs.
A long supporter of the Research and Education Community, Wes
has led Qwests support of the SCinet at SC2000 through SC07, and is currently
on the Architecture and Operations council for Internet2.
Wes has spoken at numerous conferences and invited talks,
including IPv6 IEEE Conference at NIH 2008, IRNC Workshop 2007, 1st
GENI Engineering Conference 2007, IPv6 & Security CIO Council 2006, GSA
Networx Transformation 2006, SC05 Technical Co-Chair, keynote at CCGrid2004,
ICCN2003, GSA FTS User's Conference 2003, Global Grid Forum 5 2002; GSA FTS
Next Generation Services Conference 2002; NSF Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyber
Infrastructure 2002; NASA NREN Terrestrial and Space Networking Conference
2001; Treasury IT2001 Conference; and NASA NREN Gigabit Networking Conference
2000.
He is the author of several refereed journal articles, and holds
two patents in optical communications.
Wes received his Doctorate in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, New York, and holds a Masters of Science in Computer Science
and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from New York University.